On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 01:42:43PM -0500, David wrote: > > On investigation, I found that when pppd (I think it was) starts up, > the permissions for the port are reduced, and are _supposed_ to be > restored.. I decided that for some reason, pppd didn't restore the > permissions after shutdown.. > > One possibility for this.. I cannot recall the exact procedure, but I > believe that pppd stores the original setting for the permissions.. > perhaps I tried to start pppd while I had a pppd session open.. the > second pppd may have overwritten the saved permission with the > current, which would have been the "reduced" permission and this would > have been what the original pppd would have "restored" to.. My modem > is ttyS1, so I just set the permissions to that of the other ttyS's > and the problem hasn't happened again.
Sounds like a bug either way. -- Jamin W. Collins This is the typical unix way of doing things: you string together lots of very specific tools to accomplish larger tasks. -- Vineet Kumar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
